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Title: ANCIENT CRAFT, an

Reference number: 2109

Date: 1936c

Director: filmed by Violet Anderson

Sound: silent

Original format: 9.5mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 8.08 mins

Description: A compilation of brief shots of plough horses, rural pottery in Somerset and an animated film.

Shotlist: No credits. Brief shot of plough horses. (0.36) brief blank (0.42) c/u book title page "AN ANCIENT CRAFT". [superimposed over image of title page "Omar Khayyam"] (0.57) ints. pottery in Somerset, potter at wheel; I watched the potter- thumping his wet clay int. shots of potting on a wheel intercut with exts. potter trimming his work; exts. workers pouring glaze over mugs; teabreak (1.57) stacking glazed pieces in the kiln; hand-making a handle (3.45) In that old Potter's Shop I stood alone; ints. glazing pots, stacking and stoking kiln; finishing pieces (5.19) Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend, before we too in the dust descend... etc. shots vase taking shape on wheel The End (6.07)


[Please note actual speed is 18fps. Overall running time at 18fps is 8.08 minsc]